City workers face tough job clearing park encampments, Tory says Via suntooz
Council discussed an interim report by Ombudsman Kwame Addo that found the city did not have an up-to-date and transparent plan to humanely deal with people living in park encampments.
“ have been followed home, they have been sworn at, they have been spit on by the very same people who are supposedly doing Mother Teresa’s work,” Tory said Tuesday. “I can’t accept this notion that they’re pure, lily-white people who’ve done nothing but to help … Everybody’s rights have to be respected in all this and that is why I believe so strongly public parks are no place for encampments — they’re not safe, they’re not legal and they’re not healthy.
“I think it’s disappointing if our staff who are involved in this are villified and made out to be the bad guys,” Minnan-Wong said. “They’re not the bad guys in this.”
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